2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on CompSci Major in Alabama

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on CompSci Major in Alabama” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 59,565 people earned their degree in computer science, making the major the 12th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, computer science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $67,538 and had an average of $23,620 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alabama, there were 203 computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,527 and $25,447 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 33 computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,476 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on CompSci Major in Alabama” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in computer science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in computer science.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on CompSci Major in Alabama

The colleges and universities below are the best for alabama master’s degree compsci students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computer Science in Alabama

1

Auburn University at Montgomery
Montgomery, Alabama

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Auburn University at Montgomery. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on CompSci Major in Alabama list. Located in Montgomery, Alabama, this medium-sized public school awarded 33 degrees to qualified masters’s compsci students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Computer Science at AUM

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Tuskegee University
Tuskegee, Alabama

#19 overall quality in Alabama

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on CompSci Major in Alabama that were part of this year’s ranking, Tuskegee University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Tuskegee, Alabama, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 9 degrees to qualified masters’s compsci students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Computer Science at Tuskegee University

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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